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Employment Associate

Employer
Thornton Legal
Location
Manchester
Salary
£48000 - £55000 per annum
Closing date
15 Feb 2022
Reference
JRE0710

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Practice area
Employment
Contract type
Permanent
Hours
Full time
PQE
2 years, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years
Position
Solicitor
Sector
Private practice

Job Details

We are working with a leading top 50 UK law firm who are looking to add a talented Employment lawyer to their team in Manchester.

This role is ideal for an Employment lawyer who is looking to take the next step up in their career who has between 2 and 5 years' PQE.

This is a national practice advising on a range of complex employment issues including: employment tribunal litigation, issues ranging from daily personnel matters, including disciplinary and grievance issues, strategic management issues such as redundancy programmes, industrial action, and transfers of employees.

The practice also works closely with their commercial and corporate colleagues to provide support on transactional matters.

Clients include household names and listed businesses. There is also a particular strength in the education and healthcare sectors.

On a daily basis you will encounter a wide range of matters which will include:

  • Providing legal advice to a broad range of clients, from company owners and managers, HR professionals and in-house lawyers, to public and private sector organisations, as well as senior employees and executives, on a range of employment matters.
  • Managing a good mix of contentious and non-contentious employment matters.
  • Undertake all aspects of employment law including drafting various employment documents, maternity and paternity rights, discrimination, whistleblowing, employee relations issues, disciplinary matters and grievances, mediation, dismissals, redundancy, TUPE and employment tribunal claims.
  • Transactional support

You will be working with leading employment lawyers and have the full support of more senior colleagues to help develop you professionally as an accomplished Employment lawyer working with a wide range of clients.

As you would expect from a leading firm, benefits are extensive and include:

  • Birthday privilege day
  • Christmas shutdown
  • Holiday buy and sell and carryover scheme
  • Charity volunteering days
  • Private medical insurance
  • Permanent health insurance
  • Health cash plan
  • Life assurance
  • Annual travel season ticket loan

If this Employment position is of interest, please click 'apply'. If you would prefer to have a chat before applying, then get in touch with Joe Rees to get the ball rolling. PQE and salary levels are for guidance only.

Company

Thornton Legal is a specialist legal recruiter, connecting law firms with the best legal talent across the North West, West Yorkshire and West Midlands. We focus on long term relationships built on honesty, trust and communication.

We regularly recruit for international, national, Legal 500, regional and boutique law firms, and our approach is based on quality over quantity. We consult, support and advise but, ultimately, the choice is always yours.

Find us on Linkedin here and our website here

 

 

 

Company info
Website
Telephone
01513055757
Location
Thornton Legal
2 Floor
4 St Paul's
Liverpool
Merseyside
L3 9SJ
United Kingdom

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